Del Toro has fallen very, very far

Rating: 2/10 (25 January 2014)

"From the director of Pan's Labyrinth"! Apparently. Not that you would know after watching this utterly derivative and mind numbingly awful film.
It's essentially Godzilla meets Evangelion, but with none of the fun of the first, and none of the character development and drama of the second. Instead we get characters which are either bland and generic, or just hateful and moronic. The only exception is Rinko Kikuchi's character, but she can't save this mess of a movie. There are several comic relief characters too, who are all immensely annoying.
The CG is nice enough, as is standard now, although the sets look like they've fallen out of a mid 1990s Godzilla film, which is to say, they look incredibly cheap and tacky. Maybe that's the idea, who knows.
Del Toro is a director who has proved he can make hugely imaginative, original, and beautiful works. Sadly Pacific Rim also proves that he's equally capable of making utter dross. Please Guillermo, go back to Spain and start making movies again, instead of intros to Sega Saturn games.